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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 175, NO. 26 | Thursday February 16, 2012
InDEX 2 · Quick Hits 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 13 · Crossword 16 · Sports
Full contact:
Undefeated
proves to be
more than just
a football film.
“Our generation is often
accused of being apathetic,
but even if you can’t attend a
political event or a midterm
election, effecting change is
right here on campus is simple.”
Hoping for a win:
USC to take on Hope
University in a non-conference
game at
the Galen Center at
6 p.m. today.
lifestyle 7
opinion 4
weather
Sunny
hi 68
lo 46
today tomorrow
Sunny
hi 66
lo 52
Sports
By Asher Feldman
Daily Trojan
In the midst of the athletic
department’s yearlong celebration
of USC’s Olympic successes,
International Olympic Committee
President Jacques Rogge spoke
Wednesday at Town & Gown as part
of Annenberg’s Sports and Social
Change Speaker Series.
The discussion, hosted by
Alan Abrahamson, a professor of
journalism, covered a variety of
topics, including the 1984 Summer
Olympics, held in Los Angeles,
and focused on the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum.
“The 1984 Olympics left a
tremendous legacy for this city,”
Rogge said.
Because Italian Premier Mario
Monti had ended Rome’s bid for
the 2020 Summer Games because
of financial concerns on Tuesday,
the conversation turned quickly to
Olympics
president
talks at USC
International Olympic
Committee President Jacque
Rogge spoke in Town & Gown.
| see Olympics, page 6 |
By Daniel Rothberg
Daily Trojan
Presidental candidate Jared Ginsburg said he plans
to file an elections complaint that the official Facebook
page for Undergraduate Student Government was
hacked during voting for USG elections.
USG officials said at around 5:30 p.m. that a hack
did occur, but said at 11 p.m. that they could neither
confirm nor deny a hack.
“No one from [USG] communications or technology
posted [the status] so we cannot confirm that they
actually ever appeared on the page,” said Sabena Suri,
USG senior director of communications.
Statuses allegedly appeared on the USG page urging
followers to vote for the presidential ticket of Mikey
Geragos and Vinnie Prasad, according to screenshots
taken by Ginsburg. The hacks were discovered around
3:45 p.m. Wednesday, Ginsburg said.
The Facebook accounts of students who publicly
supported Ginsburg’s campaign also posted the same
status supporting Geragos and Prasad, Ginsburg said.
According to the screenshots, the statuses posted
by the students’ accounts and USG’s page read: “Vote
Mikey/Vinnie for USG Pres and VP!!”
Candidate
alleges online
hack occurred
Candidate Jared Ginsburg said he will file
sanctions against candidate Mikey Geragos.
| see Hack, page 6 |
Elections
By Alexis Driggs
Daily Trojan
At the height of the Vietnam War,
universities were the place to be for students
wanting to make a difference in the world.
On any given day, students could engage
in discussion about the war, often with
prominent figures such as Daniel Ellsburg.
“Universities were alive with this very
complex, difficult debate about America’s
role in the war,” said Vice Dean for Academic
Programs Steven Lamy. “If you looked out
the window at any university, there was a
discussion about the war and people were
mobilized.”
After spending about a year abroad, in
Belgium and the Netherlands, and hearing
about the war from a college campus,
Lamy began rethinking his plans to use his
studies in history and political science to
become a lawyer. He was more interested
in researching, and decided to attend the
Graduate School of International Studies at
University of Denver for his Ph.D.
Now, at USC, Lamy has translated his
experience into teaching.
“The key thing is active learning,” he
said. “The idea of active learning is not
passively sitting there listening to a lecture,
but interaction: talking in class, using case
studies and doing exercises.”
One of his strategies to get students
involved is a research exercise, Beyond
Google: Basic Tools for Research in
International Relations. He said that rather
than having teaching assistants spend
discussion sections restating lectures, he
gives the students work to discuss, such
as an exercise that asks students to search
for various publications that provide
information on a variety of topics, from
South African foreign policy to who won the
Biafra Civil War.
“[This] generation believes you can find
everything on Google,” Lamy said. “My idea
is, rather than say, ‘This is a journal,’ say,
‘Go find it.’ The idea is that you give them
something like this to do and they develop
skills to use later.”
Lamy also suggests students learn
through teaching, so he created the Teaching
International Relations Program, placing
about 200 USC students in local high schools
to teach a series of lessons on international
relations. He said students also stand to learn
more about the subject through the creation
and teaching of their lessons.
“You do learn a lot about not only yourself,
but about the field that you’re teaching when
you attempt to teach,” Lamy said.
Lamy taught at the University of Transkei
in South Africa during the apartheid, where
he realized the value of education when
a student stayed after class one night to
apologize for falling asleep during class. The
student told Lamy that he woke up at six
every morning, spent the day teaching at a
school in his village, then took four buses to
the university for night classes. The student
said he wanted to have a degree to teach
when the apartheid was reformed. Lamy
said the student attended class every night,
and that was the only night he had ever fallen
asleep.
“[This interaction] said to me that I’d
better prepare very well,” Lamy said. “I can’t
take this lightly. It set up the notion that we
both have responsibility: The student has
responsibility and I have responsibility. You
come to learn, and I come to learn with you.”
Lamy’s work also took him to Eastern
European countries, such as Russia and
Estonia, at the end of the Cold War, as part
of a program to develop case studies and
to show university professors abroad how
to teach international relations. Now, he
stresses to his students the importance of
traveling to learn more. He runs Problems
without Passports, a program that provides
short-term summer courses on global issues
by taking students around the world. Past
studies have taken students to Belize, Palau
and Guam.
This summer, a group of students is
traveling to the Arctic to research climate
change. They will begin in Finland and
end in Lapland, stopping in several other
countries along the way to learn about global
perspectives on the issue.
“It’s the idea of seeing the world from a
different perspective,” Lamy said. “They
have a different way of seeing things and
that’s what study abroad does. The programs
we’ve designed are short-term, but they’re
appetizers. We hope that someone will go
abroad and say, ‘It doesn’t hurt to go abroad,
you can really learn something.’”
Lamy tries to redefine educational experience
Steven Lamy, a professor of
international relations, taught in
South Africa during the apartheid.
People
Courtesy of USC
Worldly · Vice Dean for Academic
Programs Steven Lamy has taught abroad.
Otto Hsiao | Daily Trojan
“Vote On!”
John Hunter, a freshman majoring in chemical engineering, casts his vote for Undergraduate
Student Government elections. The voting period began Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. and ends
Thursday at 8 p.m. Unofficial results will be announced at Tuesday’s USG Senate meeting.
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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 175, NO. 26 | Thursday February 16, 2012
InDEX 2 · Quick Hits 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 13 · Crossword 16 · Sports
Full contact:
Undefeated
proves to be
more than just
a football film.
“Our generation is often
accused of being apathetic,
but even if you can’t attend a
political event or a midterm
election, effecting change is
right here on campus is simple.”
Hoping for a win:
USC to take on Hope
University in a non-conference
game at
the Galen Center at
6 p.m. today.
lifestyle 7
opinion 4
weather
Sunny
hi 68
lo 46
today tomorrow
Sunny
hi 66
lo 52
Sports
By Asher Feldman
Daily Trojan
In the midst of the athletic
department’s yearlong celebration
of USC’s Olympic successes,
International Olympic Committee
President Jacques Rogge spoke
Wednesday at Town & Gown as part
of Annenberg’s Sports and Social
Change Speaker Series.
The discussion, hosted by
Alan Abrahamson, a professor of
journalism, covered a variety of
topics, including the 1984 Summer
Olympics, held in Los Angeles,
and focused on the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum.
“The 1984 Olympics left a
tremendous legacy for this city,”
Rogge said.
Because Italian Premier Mario
Monti had ended Rome’s bid for
the 2020 Summer Games because
of financial concerns on Tuesday,
the conversation turned quickly to
Olympics
president
talks at USC
International Olympic
Committee President Jacque
Rogge spoke in Town & Gown.
| see Olympics, page 6 |
By Daniel Rothberg
Daily Trojan
Presidental candidate Jared Ginsburg said he plans
to file an elections complaint that the official Facebook
page for Undergraduate Student Government was
hacked during voting for USG elections.
USG officials said at around 5:30 p.m. that a hack
did occur, but said at 11 p.m. that they could neither
confirm nor deny a hack.
“No one from [USG] communications or technology
posted [the status] so we cannot confirm that they
actually ever appeared on the page,” said Sabena Suri,
USG senior director of communications.
Statuses allegedly appeared on the USG page urging
followers to vote for the presidential ticket of Mikey
Geragos and Vinnie Prasad, according to screenshots
taken by Ginsburg. The hacks were discovered around
3:45 p.m. Wednesday, Ginsburg said.
The Facebook accounts of students who publicly
supported Ginsburg’s campaign also posted the same
status supporting Geragos and Prasad, Ginsburg said.
According to the screenshots, the statuses posted
by the students’ accounts and USG’s page read: “Vote
Mikey/Vinnie for USG Pres and VP!!”
Candidate
alleges online
hack occurred
Candidate Jared Ginsburg said he will file
sanctions against candidate Mikey Geragos.
| see Hack, page 6 |
Elections
By Alexis Driggs
Daily Trojan
At the height of the Vietnam War,
universities were the place to be for students
wanting to make a difference in the world.
On any given day, students could engage
in discussion about the war, often with
prominent figures such as Daniel Ellsburg.
“Universities were alive with this very
complex, difficult debate about America’s
role in the war,” said Vice Dean for Academic
Programs Steven Lamy. “If you looked out
the window at any university, there was a
discussion about the war and people were
mobilized.”
After spending about a year abroad, in
Belgium and the Netherlands, and hearing
about the war from a college campus,
Lamy began rethinking his plans to use his
studies in history and political science to
become a lawyer. He was more interested
in researching, and decided to attend the
Graduate School of International Studies at
University of Denver for his Ph.D.
Now, at USC, Lamy has translated his
experience into teaching.
“The key thing is active learning,” he
said. “The idea of active learning is not
passively sitting there listening to a lecture,
but interaction: talking in class, using case
studies and doing exercises.”
One of his strategies to get students
involved is a research exercise, Beyond
Google: Basic Tools for Research in
International Relations. He said that rather
than having teaching assistants spend
discussion sections restating lectures, he
gives the students work to discuss, such
as an exercise that asks students to search
for various publications that provide
information on a variety of topics, from
South African foreign policy to who won the
Biafra Civil War.
“[This] generation believes you can find
everything on Google,” Lamy said. “My idea
is, rather than say, ‘This is a journal,’ say,
‘Go find it.’ The idea is that you give them
something like this to do and they develop
skills to use later.”
Lamy also suggests students learn
through teaching, so he created the Teaching
International Relations Program, placing
about 200 USC students in local high schools
to teach a series of lessons on international
relations. He said students also stand to learn
more about the subject through the creation
and teaching of their lessons.
“You do learn a lot about not only yourself,
but about the field that you’re teaching when
you attempt to teach,” Lamy said.
Lamy taught at the University of Transkei
in South Africa during the apartheid, where
he realized the value of education when
a student stayed after class one night to
apologize for falling asleep during class. The
student told Lamy that he woke up at six
every morning, spent the day teaching at a
school in his village, then took four buses to
the university for night classes. The student
said he wanted to have a degree to teach
when the apartheid was reformed. Lamy
said the student attended class every night,
and that was the only night he had ever fallen
asleep.
“[This interaction] said to me that I’d
better prepare very well,” Lamy said. “I can’t
take this lightly. It set up the notion that we
both have responsibility: The student has
responsibility and I have responsibility. You
come to learn, and I come to learn with you.”
Lamy’s work also took him to Eastern
European countries, such as Russia and
Estonia, at the end of the Cold War, as part
of a program to develop case studies and
to show university professors abroad how
to teach international relations. Now, he
stresses to his students the importance of
traveling to learn more. He runs Problems
without Passports, a program that provides
short-term summer courses on global issues
by taking students around the world. Past
studies have taken students to Belize, Palau
and Guam.
This summer, a group of students is
traveling to the Arctic to research climate
change. They will begin in Finland and
end in Lapland, stopping in several other
countries along the way to learn about global
perspectives on the issue.
“It’s the idea of seeing the world from a
different perspective,” Lamy said. “They
have a different way of seeing things and
that’s what study abroad does. The programs
we’ve designed are short-term, but they’re
appetizers. We hope that someone will go
abroad and say, ‘It doesn’t hurt to go abroad,
you can really learn something.’”
Lamy tries to redefine educational experience
Steven Lamy, a professor of
international relations, taught in
South Africa during the apartheid.
People
Courtesy of USC
Worldly · Vice Dean for Academic
Programs Steven Lamy has taught abroad.
Otto Hsiao | Daily Trojan
“Vote On!”
John Hunter, a freshman majoring in chemical engineering, casts his vote for Undergraduate
Student Government elections. The voting period began Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. and ends
Thursday at 8 p.m. Unofficial results will be announced at Tuesday’s USG Senate meeting.
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